As of Wednesday, Jan. 7, the moon phase is Waning Gibbous. According to NASA's Daily Moon Guide, 80% of the moon will be lit ...

Reaching the Moon’s south pole has defeated multiple missions. The terrain is extreme, the shadows are permanent, and the ...

A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar ...

On 1968, NASA launched the seventh and final Surveyor spacecraft on a mission to explore the moon. Like its six predecessors, ...

NASA has a long history of spending big on bold ideas, only to see some of them stall, crash, or get quietly shelved. The ...

But machinery used on the moon must function in low gravity, a vacuum and amid abrasive lunar dust. It must also survive the two-week lunar night of electronics-killing temperatures that plunge to ...

Three supermoons will lighten up the night skies in 2026, the stunning result when a full moon inches closer to Earth than usual as it orbits in a not-quite-perfect circle. Appearing bigger and ...

Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping ...

Serenity Flight will place a symbolic portion of Ley’s cremated remains into Earth orbit alongside other participants who ...

Four astronauts are about to become the first humans to venture near the moon in more than half a century since NASA's iconic ...

Godspeed, Artemis 2! As early as February, 4 astronauts will board NASA's Orion capsule atop the SLS rocket in Florida for 10 ...

🚨Mission Update: Rollout for Artemis II is less than two weeks away.This milestone begins final, system-wide testing as NASA ...